So I'm having trouble getting selenium to work with a headless driver, specifically PhantomJS. I'm trying to get it to work on an Ubuntu webserver (Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS).
Running the following commands from a python interpreter (Python 2.7.6) gives:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/phantomjs/webdriver.py", line 51, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/phantomjs/service.py", line 76, in start
raise WebDriverException("Unable to start phantomjs with ghostdriver: %s" % e)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Unable to start phantomjs with ghostdriver: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
I've also tried:
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path="/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/phantomjs/")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/phantomjs/webdriver.py", line 51, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/phantomjs/service.py", line 76, in start
raise WebDriverException("Unable to start phantomjs with ghostdriver: %s" % e)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Unable to start phantomjs with ghostdriver: [Errno 13] Permission denied
I also added it to the python path:
import sys
sys.path.append("/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/phantomjs/")
I am currently logged in as root. Permissions for the phantomjs directory are:
drwxr-sr-x 2 root staff 4096 Sep 9 06:58 phantomjs
and for phantomjs/webdriver.py:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2985 Sep 9 06:58 webdriver.py
I've confirmed selenium is installed and up-to-date (pip install selenium --upgrade). It is installed at:
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/phantomjs/
print selenium.__version__
2.47.1
I've looked at:
https://superuser.com/questions/674322/python-selenium-phantomjs-unable-to-start-phantomjs-with-ghostdriver - Windows specific but no luck following similar suggestions.
Using Selenium in the background - answer suggests PhatomJS with full path.
https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=6736 - I uninstalled selenium and installed v2.37, with no luck. Reinstalled latest version and still no luck.
Plus some other links, most seem to recommend specifying the executable_path.
I've been testing my program on a locally hosted server (on OSX), using chromedriver. I'm actually using Splinter (https://splinter.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#headless-drivers) for that, and have tried the other headless drivers (django and zope.testbrowser) but have had similar issues.
I'm open to any suggestions, I don't mind changing driver if required.
Thanks in advance for any help.
I had the same problem as you with the same errors. I have tried to install it on openSuse Server. I ended up installing PhantomJS form source -unfortunately without any success. The way that worked for me was installing Phantomjs via npm
sudo npm install -g phantomjs